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Tanganyika

noun

The longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley. Synonym: Lake Tanganyika.

A former state in East Africa; united with Zanzibar in 1964 to form Tanzania.

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"Tanganyika" Quotes from Famous Books

... interior, and lessening any risk that might be feared of future native risings. It has also opened up a new and quick route from the coast of the Indian Ocean at Beira into the heart of Mashonaland, and brought the construction of a railway from Mashonaland across the Zambesi to Lake Tanganyika within the horizon of practicable enterprises. A scheme of government has been settled for the territories of the British South Africa Company south of the Zambesi (Southern Rhodesia), which is now at work. The prospects of gold mining in that region ...

— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce

... lay the kingdoms of the Unyoro and the Uganda, he would undoubtedly have heard something about Emin Pasha, about his troops, and about the steamers, which aroused the wonder and fear of the negroes. Tanganyika was too far away; there remained only the supposition that Kali's nation had its seat somewhere nearer. For this reason their meeting with the Wahimas was ...

— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... the pages over slowly and sadly. Here was a record of the sums sunk in the Lake Tanganyika Gold Company, which was to have paid 33 per cent., and which fell to pieces in the second month of its existence. Here was the money advanced to Durer, Hallett, & Co., on the strength of securities which proved to be the flimsiest of insecurities when tested. Further on was ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

Words linked to "Tanganyika" : Africa, geographic area, geographical region, lake, United Republic of Tanzania, Tanzania, geographical area, geographic region